Head-to-head:

Royals lead the head-to-head count 4-3 against the Sunrisers. However, SRH’s record at home of 20 wins in 30 games will give them confidence, despite RR winningwon two of their four games played at the venue.

Kane Williamson has a T20 strike rate of 192 against the bowlers in the Royals roster. He’s made 73 runs off 38 balls, losing his wicket only once. Forty-two of them have come off Stokes, at a strike-rate of 210.

Alex Hales has lost his wicket to spinners 20 times in 41 innings for England. He’s especially vulnerable to the left-arm orthodox variety – 12 dismissals. Ankit Sharma might want to pass that on to the Royals think tank

Bhuvneshwar, Rashid and Shakib, Sunrisers can count on 12 good overs. And in Bhuvneshwar, they have an excellent death bowler – 43 wickets in 71.1 overs. But who will partner him? Shakib, Rashid and Sandeep Sharma have been conceding at least nine an over in this stage of an innings since IPL 2015. Siddharth Kaul might be asked to strap on that headband again (economy rate 8.3, including 11 wickets in 10.4 overs)